Ladies in Hating @alexandravasti.bsky.social The Art of Not Eating #JessicaHamel-Akré Hum @helencphillips.bsky.social The Garden @clarebeams.bsky.social @david-higham-books.bsky.social

Books I loved in waning daylight: 🌙Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez 🥀Literary Witches, Taisia Kitaiskaia & @katyhoran.bsky.social 🕳️Portalmania, @debbieurbanski.bsky.social 👾The Sky Didn’t Load Today, Rich Larson 📚The Illness Lesson, @clarebeams.bsky.social 🕌The White Mosque, Sofia Samatar

So excited I can finally share that First Love is a @lambdaliterary.org award finalist in bisexual nonfiction!!!

From “Snowy-white, Rosy-red, Will you?” by Clare Beams in Ecotone 37 🌕 “To look at them was to want to eat them, which was what I wanted to do to my delicious baby daughters too...” @clarebeams.bsky.social Read the full story + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/snow... ‎

Thrilled to have a story in the beautiful new Moon issue of @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social , one of my forever favorites, in wonderful company! ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/snow...

"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Pittsburgh! I get to talk to the brilliant Rachel Khong as part of the Greater Pittsburgh Book Festival on Saturday! Free (though pre-registrations get priority), 11:30am at the Carnegie Library-- join us?

I woke up depressed by the NEA news but also angry. They’re stifling the best that has been thought and done (in the sciences as well as the arts) to push a shallow alienated world of slop and brainrot and I will never stop hating them for that

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

How High We Go in the Dark doesn't have mushroom zombies or ruthless leaders of militias, but it still has lots of super sad times + bonus robot dog, telepathic pig, futuristic alternative funerary practices, space travel, and lots of 80s music. #booksky www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Loved finding THE GARDEN here, in excellent company!

SO excited to get to do a group paperback launch with superstars @crystalhanak.bsky.social , @iamlisako.bsky.social , and Xochitl Gonzalez on April 15 at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn! www.lizsbookbar.com/events/23127...

THE GARDEN is out in paperback (cheaper! lighter!) on April 8th! Hearing from this novel's readers over the past year has meant the absolute world to me.

Re-upping this!

I will be at #AWP2025 talking weird fiction with @cleoqian.bsky.social @lenavalencia.bsky.social @crsutton.bsky.social and Anjali Sachdeva! "Unaplogetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction" - Fri March 28 12:10-1:25 pm Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two

A recent bright spot: I have a short story about the surrealities of parenthood in the new issue of @mcsweeneys.net . Very grateful to Rita Bullwinkel and everyone at McSweeney's for giving "Playspace" such a beautiful home.

Practice imagining that the world could be otherwise.

So, here it is: the revealing of The Cover.

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

ACIP—the external CDC advisory committee for US vaccine policy—is not meeting next week, as scheduled. This is a big deal; Americans rely on up-to-date information about eff. and safety of vaccines to make evidence-based decisions. We don’t know motivation, but this is why I’m getting nervous…

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i wrote a new newsletter. it's about shifting political realities, the imperative of collective meaning-making, and NPC smathewss.substack.com/p/how-it-is?...

I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far

Ok who out there has already started writing a book called American Rasputin: How Elon Musk Took Control of the Federal Government

This will be played as an attack on universities and research and rightly so—it is—but someone on this list might save your life or that of someone you know if they could keep working. Many will die who didn’t need to if the cuts stand.

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:

So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund. www.arts.gov/news/press-r...

Tons of news headlines on Trump wanting to "take over" Gaza, that its people would have to "relocate" so the US will have an “ownership position," but somehow not one of them saying EXPLICITLY THAT THIS IS ILLEGAL AND A WAR CRIME.

PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.

Does Chuck Schumer know he is the highest ranking democrat in the senate?

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

If you can go, go. 5pm today. Last night's cutoff of federal funding by 47 doesn't just mess with the recipients, it violates the Constitution and seizes powers that belong to Congress. It's a dictatorial attempt at consolidation of power in the presidency. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

exclusive striptease reveal of my long-awaited new one, WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU. out september 23rd — here’s the link to preorder! bit.ly/4agbMPu

happy publication day to Nancy Reddy’s THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH, which weaves together a beautifully written memoir of new motherhood with an interrogation of the bad science about the impossible standards we set for moms—& an invitation for us all to imagine better! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.

Absolutely delighted to see WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON on Bustle's Most Anticipated list. There are some serious heavy hitters here. www.bustle.com/entertainmen...

Ahem. WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON launches 1/14/25 @ P&T Knitwear in NYC! My convo partner? Brilliant writer and dear friend, Juliet Grames. We're going to have the best time! You may want distractions in January. Come distract yourself with us! (reskeets aprpreciated) Tickets 👇 tinyurl.com/2dcfbcbs

It was an honor to talk to my own ride-or-die writing buddy for Write or Die Magazine. @cecordasco.bsky.social thank you for the conversation! writeordiemag.com/author-inter...

I finished this book yesterday—I scarfed down half on an airplane, then stole as much time as I could to finish once I was back home w/my kids. It’s beautiful and intricate and a real delight, one of the best books I’ve read this year

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THE GARDEN on the Best Books of 2024 list at Vanity Fair!! www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Thank you @debutiful.bsky.social! It's an honor to be included on this list!

“don’t obey in advance” is good, but don’t obey at all, either

Hotel room reading— @clarebeams.bsky.social, this is so good

Loved this @camillerankine.bsky.social poem in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to do our jobs.”

cat’s outta the bag: BROUGHTUPSY’s getting a pretty new cover for paperback!!! 😍🙌🏾 i’m partnering w/ Oblong Books on a signed preorder campaign—so buy something pretty AND love on indie bookstores by grabbing yr copy today! (just in time for holiday shopping 😉🎅🏽🛍️) www.oblongbooks.com/christinacooke

Rita Chang-Eppig sat down with @clarebeams.bsky.social , author of the Garden, to talk Shirley Jackson, diethylstilbestrol, and pregnancy as a haunted house. Check out the interview at Reactor now! reactormag.com/something-st...

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